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Trust humans to choose the dumbest possible color for public safety. In the early days of railways, a red light meant stop, green meant caution, and a bright…
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Indian Railways developed an official mobile application specifically dedicated to tracking the notoriously delayed national train network in real time.…
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Why give speeches on a boring stage when you can do it from a heavily armored locomotive? During the Russian Civil War, Leon Trotsky lived on a massive…
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William Huskisson holds the incredibly embarrassing distinction of being the first widely reported passenger casualty of a railway accident. In 1830, during…
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It takes a village to raise a child, but it takes 1.4 million people to make sure a train gets from Mumbai to Delhi. Indian Railways is the world’s…
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The monarch was utterly terrified of momentum. She mandated that her royal train never surpass a sluggish 40 miles per hour, aggressively yelling at operators…
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